perf symbols: Robustify reading of build-id from sysfs
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tue, 3 Jan 2017 18:19:21 +0000 (15:19 -0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 7 Aug 2017 01:59:48 +0000 (18:59 -0700)
commitddc0ec3be8077a689e0136c873519bf851a741e6
treedea124e8aea5106d6417735e61d34f18e12e392c
parentd8086c3bd3a556e7598c93e5d303f771356adf9f
perf symbols: Robustify reading of build-id from sysfs

[ Upstream commit 7934c98a6e04028eb34c1293bfb5a6b0ab630b66 ]

Markus reported that perf segfaults when reading /sys/kernel/notes from
a kernel linked with GNU gold, due to what looks like a gold bug, so do
some bounds checking to avoid crashing in that case.

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161219161821.GA294@x4
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ryhgs6a6jxvz207j2636w31c@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c